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HI>S narrative of the proceedings at the banquet 
given by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of New 
York of the French Mission attending the 
Eochambean Monument ceremonies, was about to be 
put to press when the letter subjoined was received by the 
President of the Society. It is fitting that it should find 
place in this volume, testifying, as it does, to the generous 
appreciation by the French iSTation of the fervid hand- 
clasp to its distinguished representatives which it was the 
privilege of the Society to extend on behalf of the millions 
of our race and nation. 

Paris, le 11 decembre, 1902. 
Le General de Division Brugere, 
Vice-President du Conseil Superieur de :a Guerre, 
a Monsieur James A. O'Gormnn, 

President du Societe de St. Patrick, 

a New York. 

Monsieur le President, 

L'aecneil chaleureux que la Societe de St. Patrick a bien voulu 
faire, k New York, a la Mission frangaise, dont j'avais I'houneur 
d'etre le chef, m'a laisse, ainsi qu"a tons les menabres de cette 
mission, un imperissable souvenir. 

Nous nous reportons souvent, par la pensee a la magnifique re- 
union du 29 Mai, 1902, oil se sont aifirmes, dans une manifesta- 
tion enthousinste et grandiose, les sentiments de vive et affectu- 
feuse sympathie, qui unissent nos deux nations. 

J'ai demande au Governement de la Republique Francaise de 
vouloir bien envoyer a la Societe de St. Patrick un objet d'art. 
en temoignage de cette profonde sympathie et de la reconnais- 
sance de la mission frangaise. 

Le Gouvernement s'est empres'-e d'aecueillir ma demande. et 
j'ai I'houneur de vous faire conmitre que vous recevrez prochaine 
ment, par Tiutt-rmediare de notre Ambassadeur, un vase de la 
Manufacture Nationale de Sevres que j'ai choisi, et que je vous 
prie de faire placer dans le lieu ordiuaire de vos reunions, en sou- 
venir des trop courts instants que nous avons passes ensemble. 

Yous avez ete si aimable pour moi, le jour oii j'ai, en Ihonneur 
de diner fi votre cote, que je viens vous prier de vouloir bien ac- 
cepter mon portrait, que je vous address? par le meme courrier. 



Je serais henreiix si vous vouliez biea m'envoyer, en echauge, 
votre photographie. 

Veuillez agreer, Monsieur le President, I'assurance de ma haute 

consideration et de rues sentiments les plus devoues. 




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TRANSLATION. 

Paris, December 11, 1902. 
General of Division Brugere, 
Vice President of the Supreme Council of War. 
To Mr. James A. 0"(iorman, 

President of tlie Society of St. Patrick, 

New York. 
Mr. President, 

The warmth of the welcome which the Society of St. Patrick 
was good enough to offer in New York to the French Mission, 
of which I had the honor to be the head, has become an im- 
perishable memory to me, as well as to all the members of 
that mission. , 

Often do we go back in thought to the magnificent assem- 
blage of the 29th of May, 1902, where with such enthusiasm and 
impressiveness the sentiments of living and affectionate sympathy 
which unite our two nations were affirmed. 

1 ha^^e requested the government of the French Republic to be 
pleased to send to the Society of St. Patrick a piece of art 
work in token of that protVnind sympathy and of the gratitude of 
the Mission. 

The Government has hastened to comply with my request, and 
I have the honor to inform you that you will presently receive 
through the medium of our Ambassador a vase from the National 
Manufactory of Sevres which I have chosen, and which I pray 
you to install in your usual place of assembly in remembrance 
of the moments, all too short, which we passed together. 

You were so kind to me on the evening I had the honor of 
dining at your side that 1 pray you be pleased to accept my 
portrait which I have addressed to you through the same medi- 
um. I should be happy if you wculd kindly send me your 
photograph in exchange. 

Please accept, Mr. I'resident, the assurance of my high con- 
sideration and of my most devoted sentiments. 

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^^ oecaision ul' the iiiiportaiief aiul tigniiiL-aiicf ui: the 
^ dinner given on May 29, 1902, by the Friendly 
Sons (if >St. Patrick of Xew York to the French 
goM'rnmental iui.ssioii that visited these shores to 
take ivArt in the Eochambeau nioiiiiniont ceremonies, de- 
serves more tlian a fngitive record. 

General Cointe de Eochand^eau liad led the army of 
6,000 men. whom the King of France had sent to this 
ccRintry — with money, clothing and mnnitions of war, and 
escorted by a powerful ileet at a time when the outlook for 
American indejDendence was dark indeed. To Rocham- 
beau's sage counsel Washington owed mucli in the conduc-t 
of the ensuing military campaign, and to that veteran 
French soldier's whole-hearted co-operation and splendid 
subordination in the Yorktown siege and victory, he owed 
even more. Xor was Washington chary of his praise of 
this admirable gentleman and soldier. Congress voted 
two of the captured British cannon to the French com- 
mander, and they duly reached the Chateau de Eocham- 
beau. The Comte was subsequently created a Marshal 
of France by King Louis XYL, but thereafter for a 
century little public honor was paid, in America at least, 
to the nuin or his memory. 

Great deeds do not sleep forever. Some two years ago 
a statue of Eochambeau was erected in the town of Yen- 
dome, France, whore he was born, on the 1st of July, 1725, 
and it was a happy thought which inspired the erection 
of a duplicate of the monument in Washington, at the 

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c.\})ense of the government of the United States. That 
France duly recognized the lionor thus paid to one of her 
great sons may be judged from the composition of the 
special mission named by the President of the French 
Republic, M. Emile Loubet, to be present at the unveiling 
of the statue. It was headed by General Brugere, com- 
mander in chief of the French army, and Admiral Fournier 
of the French navy, and in addition to the present Comte 
and Comtesse de Eochambeau, and Comte Sahun do La- 
fayette, included M. Croiset, Dean of the Faculty of Letters 
of Paris; M. Lagrave, of the Ministry of Commerce; IM. 
Guillemin, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Comte 
de Chambnin, a direct descendant of General de Lafayette ; 
General de Chalendar, whose grandfather served under 
Pochambeau at Yorktown, with a full complement of niili- 
tarv and naval aides of higli rank in their respective 
branches of the service. The French line of battle ship 
Gaulois, a type of the most powerful warships of the French 
ISTavv, was selected to carry tlie military and naval mem- 
bers of the mission, the civil memljers electing to cross 
the Atlantic in the French liner, Touraine. 

Gratifving as the announcement of the Commission was 
to the American people at large, it was especially so to the 
millions of American citizens of Irish birth or descent. 
France had been the friend, the refuge of Ireland dnrinu- 
the darkest and bitterest hours of her history. France 
had been the hope of Ircland in her many efforts to throw 
off the galling yoke of English oppression and misgovern- 
ment. That the plans of the French to make good that 
hope were not as successful as they proved in the case of 
the American colonies of Great Britain did not lessen 



the Iii>hmau's feeling of gratitude to the brave and gen- 
erous nation so lavish of its blood and treasure in the 
cause of freedom for mankind. Kor were Irishmen slow 
to recall that the two battalions of the Irish regiment of 
Dillon, under that brave Irish commander, formed part; 
of the French force at the surrender of the English gen- 
eral, Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown. Then, too, this 
splendid reminder of the olden l)iittle-blood alliance be- 
tween France and the United States came at a time when 
the cant of "Anglo-Saxon brotherhood"' was widespread in 
these United States, and used, in season and out of season^ 
to make men forget that England ever had been an enemy 
or that any other power had ever been a friend. 

It was natural, therefore, that this sentiment among our 
citizens of Irish birth or ancestry should be still more 
warmly felt within the circle of the Friendly Sons of St. 
Patrick. They determined to witness to the faith that 
was in them, and at a meeting held early in May resolved 
to tender a grand banquet to the French commission after 
the ceremony of unveiling the statue of Rochambeau in 
Washington. An efficient committee was appointed. 
Cordial invitation was at once extended to the entire com- 
mission, through His Excellency, M. Jules Cambon, the 
French Ambassador at Washington, and it was hailed by 
that able diplomat with pleasure. As, however, the mis- 
sion was to be the guest of the United States while in this 
country, the arranging of its engagements was in the hands 
of the Department of State in Washington, and the 
Society's invitation was accordingly referred to the Secre- 
tarv of State. The committee was soon gratified to learn 
that, althouijh the invitations to the mission were much 



more numerous than could bo accepted, the evening of 
Thursday, May 29, had been named as the time when the 
distinguished Frenclimen woukl be given over to tlie lios- 
pitality of the Fiiendly Sons of St. Patrick. 

It may be pertinent to relate in this connection the 
warm personal interest taken by Theodore Roosevelt, 
President of the United States, in the project of the 
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, who have long carried his 
name on their roster. The strain of Irish blood in his 
manly heart beats ever tnie to the Irish love of freedom. 
It particularly gladdened the President to know that the 
descendants of the great Irish fighters of the Eovolution 
and the War of 1812 would be invited to meet the descend- 
ants of Rochambeau and Lafayette around the social board. 
His reception of the Committee at the White House was 
most cordial, and when it was learned that the many hos- 
pitable nets spread for the French mission threatened to 
limit the time for the banquet to one or two hours, it was 
at the President's express order that the arrangements 
were altered to give the entire evening of the 29 th of 
May to the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. 

It is also pertinent to say that the committee owed much 
in perfecting its arrangements to the courtesy of ]\I. Cam- 
bon and to the zeal and quick intelligence of j\I. Jules 
Rieufve, the Chancellor of the French Embassy. 

The battle-ship, Gaulois, bearing General Brugere and 
Admiral Fournier and their staffs made the passage from 
Toulon in a leisurely manner. Arriving in Chesapeake 
Bay on the morning of the 20th of May. she was met there 
by ships of our Xorth Atlantic Squadron, headed by the 
Olvmpia. After an exchange of salutes, our squadron 



escorted the Gaulois to her anchorage at Annapolis, where 
she arrived on the afternoon of the 21st. The American 
Commission, appointed by the President to look after the 
comfort of our visitors, together with the officials of the 
French Embassy at Washington, went on board the warship 
and were entertained with true Gallic hospitality. On 
the morning of the 22d the mission came ashore to begin 
the ten-day round of receptions and festivities already 
planned. The time-limit, it may be noted, was set by the 
duties of General Brugere and Admiral Founiier, which, 
after the indicated lapse of days, demanded their presence 
at home. The mission proceeded from Annapolis to Wash- 
ington by special train, where the French Ambassador, 
M. Jules Cambon, and the civil members of the Com- 
mission, who had arrived via New York on the Touraine. 
were awaiting them. On the same day they were presented 
to President Eoosevelt at the White House. Then came 
a trip to jMount Vernon and the tomb of Washington, 
near which a young maple, taken from the heights around 
Yorktown, was planted, each member of the mission 
placing a spadeful of earth. In the evening there was a 
dinner of one hundred covers at the White House, at which 
the President presided, and whereat the utmost cordiality 
reigned. 

The next day. May 23d, the President was received on 
the Gaulois, and in the evening the visitors were dined 
at the French Embassy in Washington. Saturday, the 
24th, the day set for the unveiling of the statue of Ro- 
chambeau, found Washington astir over the ceremonies 
which passed off with great eclat and marked by many 
interesting incidents before an enormous assemblage. On 



Sunday the entire mission attended high mass at St. 
Patrick's Cathedral, where Cardinal Gibbons preached an 
eloquent sermon on the moral results flowing from the 
alliance of France with the United States in the days of 
Washington and Eochambeau. In the evening the mission 
started by train for Niagara Falls, where Monday was 
spent. A visit to West Point broke the journey to Xew 
York, where they arrived on Tuesday afternoon. Amid 
a splendid popular reception they were driven in a long 
line of carriages to the City Hall, where they were received 
by Mayor Seth Low and the Municipal Council, the whole 
building being beautifully draped with bunting. Thence 
they were taken to ]\Iadison Square, where a review of 
10,000 soldiers of the National Guard took place. In 
the evening the mission was entertained at dinner by the 
Society of the Cincinnati. On Wednesday, the 28th, they 
were shown around points of interest in the city, visiting 
the tomb of General Grant and lunching at Claremont. 
In the evening they were dined by the French Chamber 
of Commerce of New York. On the 29th, the forenoon 
was spent in a visit to the country home of Mr. Whitelaw 
Reid, formerly Ambassador to France, the party returning 
to the city early in the afternoon. 

At six o'clock the ()9th Regiment of the National Guard, 
under command of Colonel Edward DufPy, was seen advanc- 
ing up Fifth Avenue. Never did the gallant soldiers, 
Irish-born or Irish-descended, almost to a man. step more 
alertly to the strains of the band. The regiment' was 
halted before the great hotel and deployed for a formal 
reception. Meantime a committee of escort of the Friendly 
Sons of St. Patrick had been presented to General Brugere, 



Admiral Fournier, Comte de Eocliainbeau, Corate Sahun 
de Lafayette, Comte de Chambnin and other members 
of the mission in the Waldorf-Astoria. 

Wlien all was' ready the committee escorted the dis- 
tinguished visitors to the carriag'es which were in waiting. 
A double ruffle of the drums and a regimental salute 
greeted the appearance of General Brugere upon the side- 
walk, and the regimental band broke out into the inspiring 
strains of the Marseillaise, amid the cheers of the throngs 
that filled the neighboring streets. Forming marching 
front, the companies quickly wheeled into Fifth Avenue, 
and the march to Delmonico's was taken up, the crowds 
that lined the sidewalks cheering all the way. 

The facade of Delmonico's, brilliantly illuminated and 
hung with the French and American colors, soon caught 
the eyes of our visitors. As they alighted from their car- 
riages and were met by the reception committee, the band 
of the 69th played the "Star Spangled Banner." 

It had been made known to the Committee that the 
French delegates were to leave the city at midnight in a 
special train for Newport on their way to Boston, whence 
they were to sail to France. Little time was, therefore, 
lost in tlie spacious reception rooms where the members of 
the society had gathered to greet their French guests. The 
heads of the mi.-sion were duly received by President the 
Hon. James A. O'Gorman, and presented in turn to the 
other ofScers of the society and to the principal speakers of 
the evening. Procession was then formed, a member of 
the reception committee escorting each memljcr of the mis- 
sion to his seat. President O'Gorman leading with the 
French AmVassador, M. Jules Cambon. 



It \va^ a brilliant .-ccik' that awaited the visitorf?.' A 
first glimpse of the spacious Ijanquet hall revealed one 
blaze of harmonious color and sparkling lights. Garlands 
of green studded with golden electric bulbs crossed from 
corner to corner and outlined the four sides of the room. 
Drapery of green and the red, white and blue of the tri- 
color, and the scarlet and white bars and blue-fielded 
silver stars of the American flag passed in long sweeps 
from the central crystal electrolier to the sides of the room. 
Upon the walls were shields of the American colors sur- 
mounted by trophies of American, French and Irish flags 
with their harps of gold, the mural decorations all rising 
from a background of foliage. Over the seat of the Presi- 
dent, at the further end of the hall and back of the long 
guest table, the motto "Caed Mille Failthe'^ stood out in 
letters of light. The tables in their white napery, and 
gleaming with silver and glass of many colors were deco- 
rated with masses of flowers and trophies of snuill French 
flags. The band played a lively march, and everything 
breathed a bright and joyous welcome, as the company 
found its places at the l)oard. Tlie faces of the gallant 
Frenchmen shone with pleasure. They were at once at 
home. They felt themselves in the hands of admiring 
friends as they looked over the three hundred Friendly 
Sons of St. Patrick seated at the tables below them. The 
brilliant uniforms of adniii'al and general, of wursliij) 
captains and officers, of colonels and aides of the military 
branch ; the gold-laced coats of the diplomats, the severer 
uniforms of the Academic magnates, the uniforms of the 
American service, the purple r(>l)e and gold pectoral Cross 
of an Archbishop, all heliu'd io Itidghten and render effec- 



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tive the rich color sL-hcnii'. To every one present at the 
banquet, guests and hosts alike, had been })resented a 
silver medal struck in honor of the occasion, with a ribbon 
of the French colors pendant from a silver bar bearing 
the word "Kochambeau/' It was a decoration that every- 
one could wear, and did. The decorated gallery in which 
the musicians played was graced by a brilliant galaxy of 
ladies. It was, however, when, to the strains of the "Mar- 
seillaise," the whole company rose singing as one man 
and waving French, Irish and American flags, that the 
occasion took on its top note of color and enthusiasm. 

Never was an excellent dinner more rapidly and per- 
fectly served. Course followed course with a celerity that 
showed the company to be hungering for something more 
to its mind that even the daintiest of meats. It still 
lacked some minutes of nine when the President's gavel 
sounded, and the speaking which had been so anxiously 
awaited began. The spirit of the old Irish brigades seemed 
hovering around. Echoes of the charge at Fontenoy were 
in the air. Old courtesies found noble utterance ; olden 
friendships were cemented. So the gathering moved on 
auspiciously to its higher level of spiritual exchange based 
on old racial love and otornal love of freedom. 

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GUESTS OF THE SOCIETY. 

THE FRENCH MISSION. 

His Kxcellencv M. CAMBON, 

THE French Ambassador 

General BRUGERE, General of Division, Vice-President of the 
Si'PREME Council of War, Chief of Special Mission. 

Vice-Admiral FOURNIER, Inspector-General of the Navy. 

M. CROISET, Member of the French Institute, Dean of the 
Faculty of Letters of Paris. 

General CIIALBNDAR, Commanded of the Fourteenth Infantry 
Brigade. 

Capitaink DE SURGY, Captain of the Armored Cruiser Gaulois. 

Lieutenant-Colonel MEAUX SAINT-MARC, Aid-de-Camp and Per- 
sonal Representative of M. Emile Loubet, President of the 
French Republic. 

COMTE DE ROCHAMBEAU. 

COMTE SAHUXE DE LA FAYETTE. 

M. LAGRAVE, Representing the Ministry of Commerce. 

M. DE MARGERIE, Counselor of the French Embassy at Wash- 
ington. 

M. JEAN (JFILLEMIN. Sub-Director of the Cabinet of the For- 
eign Minister. 

M. EDMOND BRUWAERT. French Consul-General at New York. 

Lieutfnaxt-Colonel HERMITE, Commander of the Sixth Foot 
Artillery. 

M. RENOUARD, Painter and Engraver. Representing the Minis- 
try OF public Instruction. 

M. ROBERT DE BILLY, Secrft.^^ry of Embassy. 

M.^.tor BERTIIELOT, Aid-de-Camp TO General BrugSre. 

Capitaine VIGNAL, Military AttachS to the French Embassy 
AT Washington. 

Lieutenant-Commander LE VICOMTE DE FARAMOND, Naval At- 

TACHfi TO THE FRENCH EMBASSY AT WASHINGTON. 

M. JULES BCEUFVE, Chancellor of the French Embassy at 
Washington. 

Lieutenant ANDRE SAUVAIRE-JOURDAN, Aid-de-Camp to Vick- 
Admiral Fournier. 

Lieutenant GUSTAVE LE JAY, Aid-de-Camp to Vice-Admiral Four- 
nier. 

Lieutenant LE BARON MAXIMILIEN DE REIXACH DE WERTH, 
Aid-de-Camp to Vice-Admiral Fouknier. 

Capitaine POUILLOUE DE SAINT MARS, Captain of Artillery. 

Capitaine ETIENNE FILLENEAU, Aid-de-Camp to General Bru- 
g£re. 

Capitaine LASSON, Attach^ of the General Staff of the Gov- 
ernor of Paris. 

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M. LOUIS HERMITE. Skcketary of the French Embassy. 

VICOMTE DE CHAMBRUN, Attach^ of the French Embassy at 
Berlin. 

M. VICTOR AYGUESPARSSE, Attach:?: to the French Embassy. 



PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION. 

Mk. HERBERT H. D. PEIRCE. Third Assistant Secretary of State. 

Colonel THEODORE A. BINGHAM, U. S. Army. 

Commander RAYMOND P. RODGERS, U. S. Navy. 

Mr. EDWIN MORGAN, Secretary ro the President's Commission. 



Her Excellency Mme. CAMBON, French Ambassadress. 
COMTESSE DE ROCHAMBEAU. 
Mrs. HERBERT H. D. I'EIRCE. 
Mme. ^IARGERIE. 
Mme. VIGNAL. 




COM-TESSE: DE ROCHAMBEAU, W I F" I 
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F»EAI_E'S POR-TRAIT OF WAS H I IM C3XO N , 

Presented by General li'as/i/'ngion to Rochambeau and nmv in the Chateau de 
Rochatiibeau 



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Lncinps 

Potag^es 

Consomme Rorh.-imbeau 
IJisque d'Ecrcvisses a la I'arisieuoe 

Hors d'Oeuvre 

Timbales Diplomat 

Poissoii 

Truites de Kuisseaii a la Mariuiere 

Concouibres 

Pommes de Terre Viennaise 

Kelevt' 

Selle d'Agnean. Sauce At-omatiqiie 
Toniatt's Farcies a la Trevise 

Entrees 

Ailes de Poulets I'erigord 

Petits pois Nouveaux iV la Francjaise 

Asperges XouvelUs, Sauce Mousseline 

Sorbet Tricolor 

Rotis 




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Pigeonueau au Cresson 

Feuilles de Foies Gras en Aspics aux Laitues 

Entremets de Douceur 

Glaces de Fantaisies 

Pieces Montees 

Fruits Petits Fours 

Caff' 

Sauterne Sherry ier 

Champagne St. Estephe 

ApoIUnaris Liqueurs 



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OHAXEAU DEI ROC H A M B E A U , VEINDOME RFRANCE. 

Here tlic Marshal was born in l 7 2^ and died iu iSoy , mid here are preset ved his .ere >rY ivorn 
in the Aiiiericnn Campaign, his Marshal's Baton and many other ?-elirs. 



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TOASTS. 



The Pkesident's Addeess, ----- llox. Ja.mes A. O'Gorman. 
The President of the United States. 

Always lie pi-essed to the markeil-out lioal 
lu the awful might of the Pure and Just : 

Lofty, UDflinching — for strong of sduI 

With that which is greater than courage -trust. 

The President of the French Republic, 

His Excellency M. Jules Cambon, the French Ambass.4.bor. 
Out of the whirwind Truth that came on France, 

Kose the young Titaness, Democracy, 
Superb iu gesture, with the godlike glance, 

Now stirred, now still with dream of things to be. 

— Edirin Marlchum. 

France and the United States - - Rt. Rev. John Ireland, D.D. 
The affection., the gratitude, ihe sympathy, the hopes of 
America followed the French ollicers as they left her shores. 
What boundless services they had rendered in the establish- 
ment of her independence ! What creative ideas were they 
to carry home ! — Baneioft. 

The Kinship of the Celt (original poem) - Joseph I. C. ('i.aukk 

The jNIejiorv of Washin(;ton and Rochambeau 

Hon. James Fitzgerald 
"To (his tfstimony of your public character I should be 
wantirg to the fee'.iiig of my h art. was I not to add expres- 
sion of the happiness I have en.loyed in your private friend- 
ship, the remembrance of which will be one of the most pleas- 
ing circumstances of my life." — Letter of farewell from 
(reoroc Wdxhiiifiton to Count dc 1,'ochaiiihcau, V, December, 

France .vnd Ireland ------- Hon. W. Boukke Cockuan 

Oh, hear us. fair France, our eyes are on thee. 

Are thy lofty shps coming in strength o'er the seaV 

In freedom's last strife if you linger or fail 

No morn shall e'er break on the night of the Gael. 

— Irixh BaUitiJ of the l$th Centnrif. 

The Army and Navy of Fkancio ---------- 

General BRU(;ftR:: 
Vice- Admiral Foiumer 
What shelters Right ? 

The sword '. 
What makes it might '.- 

The sword I 
What strikes th? crown of tyrants down 
And answers wiih its Hash their frown? 
The sw)rd '. 

"Fontenoy'' (recitation i 

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DO MAT I I 
SON 



OF THE 



I=?OOMAMBEAU, 
MARSHAL. 



Fought beside his fatlwr iu tlic Aincricrn Camfnign. co7iniipncied the Free 
orccs in San Domingo in 1S02, onii vas <aj>ivred ly the F)!glish and held 
priso7!cr eight years in England. Relaxed in iS 1 1 hi- ie-inter(d the army of 
Napoleon and fell at the battle of Lei f sic in /S/j. 



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When coffee had been served and cigars were lighted, the 
President of the Society, Hon. James A. O'Gorman, arose 
and said: 

GeiitU'ineii of the Friendly 
Sons of St. Patrick : We have 
just received the following tel- 
egram from President Eoose- 
velt: 

"Wi[iTE House, 
Washington", D. C, 

May 29, 1902. 
Hon. James A. O'Goeman, 
President Friendly Sons of 
St. Patrick, County Court 
House, New Tori-, N. Y.: 
Please assure the members 
of the Society of my hearty ap- 
preciation of their cordial invitation and express to those 
present at the dinner this evening my very real regi'et at 
my inability to be present. I should greatly enjoy being 
with you if it were possible. I congratulate the Society 
and send to its members and its distinguished guests my 
sincere best wishes. Theodore Eoosevelt." 

(Applause.) 




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General Porter, who has honored us with his presence 
to-night, has been in Paris for five years, and his long 
absence abroad may explain the questions he asked me a 
moment ago. He asked : "Is President Eoosevelt a member 
of this Society?" I said, '"Yes." He rejoined: "But I 
thought the qualification for entrance into the Friendly 
Sons was either birth in Ireland or an Irish ancestry.'" I 
replied that of all the elements utilized to make up this 
great man who is our President to-day, we Irish regard 
the Irish blood that came through his mother as not the 
least important. (Applause.) 

We shall begin our post-prandial exercises by proposing 
the health and hajjpiness of our much beloved and most dis- 
tinguished fellow-member, Theodore Eoosevelt, the Presi- 
dent of the United States. (Applause.) 

The toast was duly honored and the baud played "The 
Star-Spangled Banner," and the president resumed: 

The toast which has just been honored with such fervor 
and enthusiasm might never have been proposed on this 
continent if we did not receive at the most critical period 
of our struggle for national existence the generous and 
heroic support of that brave, chivalrous and mighty nation 
wliose distinguished envoys adorn this occasion. (Ap- 
plause.) 

To you, Mr. Aniljassador, and to you, General Bru- 
gere, and to you. Admiral Fournier, and to all your dis- 
tinguished countrymen, we extend a most cordial and fra- 
ternal greeting. (Applause.) 

To-night the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick salute the 
Sons of France. We recall with hearts full of gratitude 
that, when our fathers fouglit for liberty and indt'jiondence. 

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France, in the hour of our sorest trial was our only friend 
in all the world. (Applause.) 

With your aid we tluew olf tlic chains of an odious des- 
potism, and took our place among the free people of the 
earth. (Applause). Your country was our first and only 
ally, and be assured that the memories of those distant 
days shall abide with us and our posterity forever. (Ap- 
plause.) Xor can we forgot amid these environments 
that more ancient alliance and the old traditions of sym- 
pathy and kinship that have existed for centuries be- 
tween France and that other land to which we, of this 
Society, are all bound by ties of birth or ancestry — the 
land of Sarsfield and Emmet, O'Connell and Parnell. 
(Applause.) The Irish exile, whom cruel oppression and 
tyranny drove from his native land, ever found a welcome 
and an asylum beneath the banner of France, and it is 
therefore especially gratifying to us to have this oppor- 
tunity to do honor to France and her illustrious sons who 
arc now on American soil. (Applause.) 

As Americans we revere the ]ncinory of Kochambcau and 
Lafayette. (Applause.) The recollection of their deeds 
is one of our most cherished possessions, and in our hearts' 
affection they occupy a place with Washington and Jeffer- 
son and the founders of the Republic. "We rejoice that the 
tAvo great Repul)lics of the world continue united in the 
majestic brotherhood of liberty. ^lay they ever be thf^ 
great exemplars and evangels of human freedom and jus- 
tice, and may their achievements bo a hope and an inspira- 
tion to all the rest of mankind. (Apjdauso and shouts of 
liravo. l»ra\<).) 



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Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, fill your glasses and drink 
to the health of the President of the French Eepublic, 
and the happiness and prosperity of all his conntrymen." 
(Applause, miisic^ and waving of liags.) 

I now, have the honor to present the French Ambas- 
sador, M. Caniljon. (Applause.) 

Speech of Ambassador Jules Cambon 

.Ml'. Chairman and ({entle- 
men : It is a pity, but I can- 
not speak Irish very well 
(laughter), so that 1 can ex- 
press to you in the name of my 
countrymen, your guests, the 
French mission sent to Amer- 
ica by our Government in hon- 
or of the statue of Eocham- 
bcau, and the friendship ex- 
isting between America and 
France. (Applause.) I wish 
to say how much I am im- 
|)ressed l)y your splendid and 

enthusiastic — and permit me to add, your Irish — reception. 

(Applause.) 

We are much flattered to be received to-night by the 
Sons of St. Patrick. Wc know that the oldest branch of 
the Society of St. Patrick was founded in Philadelphia 
before the War of the Revolution, and that at the close of 
that war this city was the birthplace of your organization, 
among whose founders were many officers who were with 




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Washington in the War of Independence. Our fathers 
fought heside your fathers under the orders of Washington 
and of Eochambeau. (Apphiuse.) To-day the sons of 
France are with you, as a century ago our fatliers were with 
your fathers (applause), and I am sure I but express the 
feelings and the sentiments of the President of the French 
Republic and of the President of the United States when I 
utter the hope that our sons in a century to come will 
again meet with the same sentiment, with the same feel- 
ing of eternal friendship. (Applause.) 

Hon. James A. O'Gokmax : The next toast is "France 
and the United States," which will be responded to by one 
of the most eminent of prelates and the most distinguished 
of patriots — Archl)ishop Ireland of St. Paul. (Groat ap- 
plause. ) 

Speech of Right Rev. John Ireland. 

France and the United 
States ! Far down the coming- 
ages be the toast spoken in that 
richness of joyous life whicli 
goes forth to-night from the 
deepest fibres of our souls I 
France and the United States I 
Hosts and guests, friends of 
France and friends of the 
United States, the words are 
rapturous in their music : 
again I say them: murmui' 
them in softest caress, as aloud 
I repeat them — France and 
the United States. 




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Banner of France, banner of America, be enwreatlied one 
with the other in fondest embrace; you will but faintlv 
symbolize the hearts that quiver beneath your folds. (Ap- 
plause.) 

Banner of France, banner of America ; heart of France, 
heart of America — tbe union of to-night is not born of the 
moment; it is the result neither of circumstances, nor of 
■diphimacy (applause) : the delioht which springs from it is 
too exuberant; the sincerity which vitalizes it is too 
profound. The union of to-night — six scores of years 
affirm it ; fiekls crimsoned with blood witnessed its early 
throbbings; purposes most holy, durable as are eternal truth 
and eternal justice, breathed into it life and inspiration. 
Yes, six scores of years affirm it; and, as time flew tjy. its 
meaning was more clearly seen, and the blessedness of its 
fruitage was more widely spread; the warmth it begets in 
souls waxed the warmer, and the joyousness that ]u-oclaims 
it re-echoed in tones more triumphant. ( A])i)laust'.) 

Illustrious guests, sons and re])resontatives of France, 
you understand the ecstatic delight with which we welcome 
you to our l)oard and to our licai'ts. 

The old days are back to us; li()cband)eau ami Lafay- 
ette are among us ; France's ships of war sweep up the 
Chesapeake Bay and into Xewpoit's harbor; France's 
sw^ords sparkle l)eneath the sunshine of American skies; 
the old days are back to us, and the story they tell flashes 
most vividly across our minds. 

The Declaration of Independence had Ijeen spoken; a 
new nation had sprung into being — liberty's own creation, 
libertv's own daughter: and in its defence a people was in 

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arms, a peo^jle as Ijrave and as self-sacrificing, as generous 
and as resolute as any upon which the noonday sun had 
ever shed its lustre. But alone and unaided, America's 
cham])ions faced despair and defeat. 

What happened? In the unbounded largeness of her 
heart and in the armed might of her power, France arose 
and declared that the new nation must live and conquer. 

At once, at the very outset of our conflict, France was our 
friend. Her ports opened to our ships, and her palaces to 
our envoys ; from her ai'senals arms and ammunition were 
dispatched to our shores; from her treasury money was 
poured into our hands in fabled prodigality ; her sons volun- 
teering in the name of liberty, among them a Lafayette, 
hurried to our battlefields. Immense was the favor: but it 
did not suffice. Then France, publicly and officially, took to 
herself our cause. D'Estaing's vessels flew across the 
ocean, and. later, those of De Crrasse and of De Ternay ; and 
Eoehaniboau and liis homes stopped asliore at jSTewport. 

"All is over," said England's minister, when the news of 
Yorktown reached him. And what see we at Yorktown? 
American soldiers, under the leadership of Lafayette, driv- 
ing Cornwallis into his last refuge ; the navies of De Grasse 
and of De Barras riding in the Chesapeake waters, lest an 
English fleet hail nigh; St. Simon's troops arriving from 
the West Indies ; Eochambeau's troops with those of Wash- 
ington racing from the north. The sea forces, ships and 
men. were altogether French ; of the land forces, the larger 
part were French, tliree thousand men under St. Simon, 
and four thousand under Eochambeau. Without France, 
was victory to alight upon us at Yorktown ? 

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France was with lis at Yorktown, and at YoiktoAvn 
all went well. The ITnitecl States was a nation, acknowl- 
edged so by the world. All that it stood for was a stern 
and enduring reality. The victory was the feat of the 
allied forces of France and of the United States. Hearken 
to Washington and Rochambeau as they drink to the toast 
— France and the United States! Sons of Washington, 
sons of Rochambeau, we drink to it to-night — France and 
the United States! (Applause.) 

Without France, the American Revolution in the last 
quarter of the eighteenth century was undoubtedly a fail- 
ure. This is the calm judgment of history, based upon 
facts that are indisputable. France with her money, her 
navy and her army gave us our independence. The blood 
of France flowing with the blood of America's own chil- 
dren, poured life into the Republic of America ; the name of 
France is inseparable from America's most cheri&hed 
annals; the memory of France is impressed indelibly upon 
her soul. Tear the Republic to pieces, scatter to the winds 
the fragments of her mutilated form, blot forever America 
out of v:xisteuee, bury her name amid the ruins upon the 
soil she once covered with her glory — then, and then only, 
will America forget her debt of gratitude to France and 
cease to repeat in exultation — France and the United 
States. And even then, remaining humanity will rise up 
to thank France for her co-operation in the American 
Revolution, because of the inestimable blessings which 
humanity caught up from the liberties of America, while 
i\merica had lasted. (Applause.) 



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"Our gratitude for France/' wrote Franklin at the close 
of the war, "will be, I hope, eternal." Our gratitude for 
France, we to-night proclaim it will be, beyond all peril of 
recall, eternal. 

Honored guests, be not surprised at the enthusiasm 
with which America has hailed your coming. She but acts 
out her very soul ; as she did A^esterday to Eochambeau and 
to Lafayette, so to-day she does to you ; so to-morrow and at 
all times will she do to those who speak to her of France, 
who bear to her the banner and the name of France. 

But what means, I must ask, this banner of green? 
Why flutters it over the festive board, where thanks ascend 
to heaven for victories won by the soldiers of Washington 
and of Eochambeau ? Did its folds unfurl to the breeze at 
Newport, or at Gloucester Point, or at Savannah or at 
Yorktown? And if not, why dares it hither? 

jSTo. It did not rise to the skies ovei' your storied battle- 
fields. Alas for the land it symbolizes ! Erin holds no 
place among the nations of the earth ; her sons must range 
themselves under the banners of other lands, if they serve 
justice and liberty. But had this banner of green shot up 
into the air at ISTewport or at Gloucester Point, at Savannah 
or at Yorktown, oh! — hearts were there that would have 
madly worshipped it — swords were there that would have 
instantly gleamed in fealty to it ! (Applause.) 

Armies of Eochambeau, of St. Simon, of d'Estaing, tell 
me whence on your muster-rolls such names as I there 
read: Arthur Dillon and Eobert Dillon, Taafe and De 
Malonev, Browne and Shea, Moore and O'Neil. Kelly and 
O'Dwyer. O'Brien and O'Farrell? No strangers are they 
to us, you say to me. They and fellows of theirs into the 



million are known from ''Dunkirk to Belgrade,"' from 
"Fontenoy to Eamilies and to Cremona." On a hundred 
fields they have wreathed in glory the Flenr-de-lis. They 
are sons of Erin, and as snch, by royal decree, citizens of 
France. ( Applause. ) 

Friends, when Louis XVI. decreed that French armies 
should sail for America, France's Irish Brigade clamored 
for the privilege of fighting for liberty and for America ; 
one-half of the Dillon Kegiment, under Count Arthur Dil- 
lon, was with d'Estaing in the West Indies and at Savan- 
nah, and with St. Simon at Yorktown; the other half, 
under Count Robert Dillon, landed with Rochambeau at 
Xewport, aided De Lauzun to rout Tarleton at Gloucester 
Point, and with Rochambeau's men in front of Yorktown 
rent the heavens with their cheers, as the English troops 
did homage to the triumphant banners of America and of 
France. Frenchmen, you would not order hence the ban- 
ner of green ! 

Armies of Washington, need I repeat to you names that 
were ever to you a presage of victory and of honor? Fa- 
miliar they are — Montgomery and Wayne, Stewart and 
Knox, Thompson and Butler, Hand and Moylan — not for- 
getting dauntless Jack Barry, who so often cleared the seas 
of the enemy's vessels — not forgetting the men in the rank 
and file, numbering the thousands, never faltering before 
British steel. Americans, you would not order hence the 
banner of green ! 

The two nations, Franco and the United States, are for- 
bidden bv history to meet in commemoration of the Amer- 
ican Revolutionarv War without thev give to Ireland recog- 



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nition for her part in that war. The three hinds that may 
claim as their work Yorktown and the American Eepublic 
are America itself, France and Ireland. (Applanse.) 

Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, I charge you, see that soon 
in Washington's City a noble statue proclaim the glory 
of Ireland, as statues of Eoehambeau and of Lafayette pro- 
claim there the glory of France. 

Without France the American Revolution was a failure. 
A\^:)uld another revolution have taken place at a later date, 
and succeeded, is a question open to speculation. Who 
knows ? The Colonies would for a long time at least have 
been overwhelmed with the memories of defeat. Great 
Britain would have granted notable concessions; perhaps 
the Bjritish Hag, guaranteeing far-reaching autonomy, 
would to-day have the place of the Stars and Stripes; even 
in case of a complete separation from Great Britain, per- 
haps a government less freedom-giving than the Eepublic 
would to-day sway the destinies of our land. At best, the 
creation of the Eepublic was postponed, and the influences, 
going out from it, were refused to the world at the close of 
the eighteenth and at the opening of the nineteenth cen- 
tury. How much there was at stake in the entrenchments 
around Yorktown ! What mighty problems. Frenchmen, 
your country was called to aid in solving, when Lafayette 
and Eoehambeau were crossing the Atlantic I 

The triumph or the failure of tlie United States meant 
the triumph or the failure of popular liberty, of democratic 
government. The spirit of democracy had been astir amid 
the dreams of nations. It was now making a supreme 
effort to take living, concrete form in America, thence to 
send its breatliings far and wide over the world. Crushed 



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in America, it was in despair, and for a long period, at 
least, Avould not again have shown itself npon the earth. 

France saved America, and with America she saved pop- 
ular liberty. The American Revolutionary War was. as it is 
seldom the case in history, pregnant with mighty results. 
To have taken a part in that war, to have turned in favor 
of America the scales of victory, was a feat sublime, of 
which a great and magnanimous people may forever be 
most proud. The triumph of the American cause signified 
not merely the birth of a new nation, of a nation destined 
in the passage of years to grow into giant stature and 
giant power. It signified what is of immensely deeper im- 
portance, the lifting up of the masses of mankind into a 
new consciousness of their rights, into a new inheritance of 
social and political liberty. It signified the institution of 
democracy in the life of humanity. As the sequence of it, 
there was an utter change in social and political life ; there 
was the inauguration of an order of things to which the 
world heretofore had been utterly a stranger. Talk as men 
may of the perils of democracy, or of the vicissitudes more 
or less alarming which accompany it while it is supplant- 
ing older regimes ; democracy, under one form or an- 
other, is the assured sovereign of the future, and, 
when the l^alance sheet is drawn, it will be seen to have 
been the potent lever through which humanity will have 
sprung upward into higher spheres of liberty and of hap- 
piness. America and France, yon have dowered the world 
with democracy. (Applause.) 

Democracy, triumphant in America, soon wafted its 
breathings across the Atlantic to France, where, in the 
generous and aspiring souls of France's sons it found con- 

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genial soil. Far from me to praise or excuse excesses and 
crimes which sought shelter under its mantle ; these dis- 
graced it and retarded its beneficent reign. What I praise 
and admire is the glory of to-day. To-day France is a 
Eepublic even as is America ; to-day the starry flag and 
the Tricolor emblem liberty and democracy; together. 
France and America hold the advanced posts in the for- 
ward movements of liumanity ; together France and Amer- 
ica guard liberty and bless humanity. 

This is the result of the glorious alliance that brought 
Rochambeau and Lafayette to America six scores of years 
ago. This is another bond, one most enduring, to l)iiid 
together France and the United States — both republics, 
both the embodiments of democracy, both tlie guardian 
angels of liberty, both the precursors of its universal reign. 
Friends, hosts and guests, again the toast — France and the 
United States. (Applause.) 

Honored guests, France in your persons revisits our 
shores to see how stands in this year of grace 1902 the 
United States which she knew so well in the days of 
Rochambeau and of Lafayette. Are we worthy of you? 
Have we grown as we gave promise to grow ? Are we such 
that you may be proud of us, proud of the part you took in 
the l)uilding of us into a free and independent nation? 

It is joy for us to believe that you are pleased with what 
you see and hear, and that, on your return to France, you 
will say: "All is well across the Atlantic waters." 

The three millions of people whom your forefathers 
knew are to-day the eighty millions ; the area of population 
which barely lined the Atlantic seaboard covers the whole 

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continent even unto the Pacific, and over numerous islands 
far into the waters of Athmtic and Pacific the starry flag 
now floats. (Applause.) We replenish the marts of the 
world with the products of our inventions and of our in- 
dustries ; by very force of our greatness and of our power we 
are compelled to lift our voices in the council halls of na- 
tions. Will we, or will we not, we no longer are, we no 
longer can be the secluded isolate of the Western hemi- 
sphere ; a part is necessarily ours in the hegemony of hu- 
manity. 

What changes in the republic of Washington and of 
Franklin ! It has grown as no one fancied it could have 
grown. The world marvels ; we ourselves marvel ; we thank 
heaven, and we pray for light and strength to respond to 
its mysterious designs. 

But where America allows no changes, as years pass 
over her. as she emerges, in her nationhood, into giant 
stature, is in her ideals and in her purposes. 

America is, as she was in the days of Washington and 
of Rochaml)oau. the land of liberty and of democracy. She 
stands before the world the undeniable demonstration that 
social and political liberty may be the possession of a 
great and powerful nation ; that to territorial expansion and 
to boundless material prosperity it is no bar, but rather a 
potent aid through the individual aggressiveness which it 
is its nature to develop. She is the land of liberty and of 
democracy. Wherever her flag is unfurled, there social 
and political liberty is assured. The starry flag can be 
trusted ; it merits that it l)e trusted ; we who know it do 
trust it. and ever will trust it. Order in liherfv. and lib- 



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erty in order, is the rule of America. Chaos and anarchy, 
the destruction of order, she will promptly repress; despot- 
ism and the abridgement of popular rights she will as 
promptly repel. (Applause.) She has grown and she 
must continue to grow in population, in wealth and in 
power. But let there be no fear as to her ideals and as to 
her purposes. A willing worker she will ever be in the 
cause of civilization and of the betterment of humanity. 
The growth of her power pleases, because it is the growth 
of her opportunities and of her abilities to serve truth and 
justice wherever this may be done. Industry and com- 
merce, wealth and material splendor we do not covet for 
her, unless there be as the accompaniments of those things 
the things of the higher and better life, which truly make 
for the happiness and the elevation of men. Xor would we 
rejoice in her rapid march into international fame and 
power, unless we had reason to believe that her appearance 
as a star in the galaxy of mighty nations was to be the 
signal of a new impetus to justice and to charitv in the 
affairs of universal humanity. (Applause.) 

[Tlip follotciiif/ ih'/ircred in French.) 

Say all this to France, honored guests, ami tell France 
that, whatever the changes in America, the heart of 
America in presence of France is unaltered. Her debt 
to France, America always recognizes ; her growth in 
glorv and power but increases in her the consciousness of 
this debt, as it but increases her ability to repay it. To- 
day, when she looms up amid the nations beauteous and 
strong, all tender to her the tribute of their love and of their 
esteem. When she was poor and weak, France alone 

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smiled upon lior and alone nislicd to lirr ix'scnc. Whatever 
tlie regard which others merit and receive from her to- 
day, tlie smile of her predilection remains to France : ties 
of gratitude, made adamantine in the flow of l)lood. hind 
her to France in a union sudi as can l)e Ixdween her and 
none other. France and the United States it is to-day ; 
France and the United States it will ever he. (A])plause.) 

And for thyself. France I we offer Init the ])i-ayer that 
thou l)e always what to-day thou art, what yesterday thou 
wast, fair, nohle, generous and heroic, a hlessing to human- 
ity. 

Gesta Dei per Francos, it used to Ije said from the re- 
mote days of Clovis and of Charlemagne — Fi-ance, the 
Deity's chosen instrument fm- the accomplishmenl of its 
highest designs for the welfare and the aggrandizenie it of 
humanity. Ever in the march of religion and of eiviliza- 
tion thou wast in the vanguard; ever thy lieai-t was prompt 
to l)eat in res])onse to the prayers of charity and of justice; 
ever thy sword was prompt to lea]) from its scal)hard in the 
furtherance of grand and nnignificent ideas — Fiance. l>e 
always tlie selfsame. 

Ever thy missionaries were most zealous and self-sac- 
rificing in u])lifting the cross under sultry Southern sky or 
amid coldest Northern glaciers; in making all laii(U 
debtors to Christ and to France. Ever thy soldiers were 
the bravest and the most chivalrous, victors a tliousand 
times, never broken in heart even when defeated, always. 
whether in victory or in defeat, the mighty knights of 
honor unblemished — France- be always tln' selfsniu''. 

Ever thy \alleys were fertile ami beautiful, tliv moun- 

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tains sun-kissed and smiling; ever thy eldiclren, in vaiieys 
or on mountain tops, were liglit-liearted and genial, quick 
of thought, noble in impulse, sweet and attractive in man- 
ner, an enduring Joy to themselves and to all others who 
drew nigh unto them- — France, be always the selfsame. 

Ever thou wast the c[ueen of song and of music, of art, 
and of literature. Ever to thy shores did men repair who 
sought to rise unto the highest regions of a3sthetic culture, 
who dreamed of beauteous graces, that betoken the best 
soarings of the human soul, that e'nrich human life with 
the most precious vestures — France, be always the self- 
same. 

At home, France, be always youthful, full of hope and 
of courage, always happy and joyful, always rich and strong, 
sweet as thou canst I)ut be to those who come to thee as 
friends, terrible as thou ouglitest to be to those who would 
be thy enemies. 

And reign. France, far l)eyond thy own borders. 
Reign, mistress and queen in all the sweet influences that 
go forth from thy opulent mind and heart. Reign in the 
arts and in the literature that spring from thy bosom to 
enrich the whole world ; reign in thy classic language, 
which always compels delight wherever music of words, 
crystal limpidity of expression. l)eauty and stateliness of 
form, are admired and loved. (Applause.) 

And everywhere and always, France, remember America. 
E^'ery where and always say 'with us: France and tlio 
United States — Republic of America. Republic of France — 
both be blessed by Heaven, both live long and prosper ; both 
together giiard liberty, both together serve liuinanitv. 
(Applause.) 

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Hox. Jamks a. OXIorman: 
It would lifirdly be an Irish 
occasion if it lacked some lyric- 
al rhythmic expression, and 
surely the thought of rbis his- 
toric gathering would inspire 
any poetic-souled son of Gael. 
'Die only member of our Soci- 
ety who finds versification easi- 
er than prose composition is 
our good friend Jose])h I. C. 
Clarke, who will now read a 
]>:)em composed for tb.is occa- 
sion, entitled "The Kinship of the Celt." (Applause.) 
THE KINSHIP OF THE CELT. 

It's the flag of FraiK-c! the flag of France. I see! 

Life to it! Health tu it! fold on fold 
With tlie silken glint on its colors three. 
Yet if it was white with lilies of gold — 
The flag of a king — bnt the banner of France, 
With the flag of stars otn- love 'twould share, 
And, my soul, I'm for either with sword or lance. 
It is men we love, not the colors they wear. 
Let the seas divide; let the green earth hide, 

And the long years come and go. 
When love has once dwelt in the heart of the Celt 
It is there while the waters flow. 

"And why do yon Irisli love France? It senis right 
When we sons of Plymouth read how they came, 
And shoiddered their guns in the Yorktown fight. 
To feel grateful and honor that nation's name. 
To see plain Ben Franklin sit down with their king, 

And Kochambeau join I^afayette on guard, 
'Lougside of George W^ashington, and — by jing! 
Paul Jones on the deck of Bonhomme Richard! 
Oh, it stirs us yet ; no, we don't forget 

The days between storm and shine, 
With the ships of the French, and their men in the trench. 
And their rush on the fighting line." 



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The love of old Ireland for France? It has been 

In the first low lilt of our cradle croon; 
Has twined with our longing for Wearing the Green; 

Has been wet with the tears of our Sliule Aroon. 
No new love can bid it to wither and fail; 

Its roots have sunk deep in the past, and are strong 
As the long, long mem'ry that marks out the Gael 
For loving old love and for hating old wrong. 

Where the strong hands clasp in the true man's grasp, 

And the stout soul finds its ni.-ite. 
Let the great doors swing and tlie great btils ring 
For the love that laughs at fate. 

To France for a hundred sad years we turned 

As our only friend and our hope-lit star. 
And never our banished ones" pray'rs she spurned. 

But mustered for Ireland her lords of war. 
Oh. the French on the sea, and the pikes on the plain. 

The battle-joy strong in the eyes and breast. 
And if in our Ireland their valor was vain. 

God prospered their arms in the land of the West. 
Man strikes and prays, but God's dim ways 

Direct the red bolt that's hurled. 
And the staggering blow of Rochaiubcin 
Broke chains all round the world. 

They flung wide their halls to our priests and our youth, 

When our schools were razed and our faith was banned; 
They sent us the swords of De Tesse and St. Ruth, 

And Humbert and Hoche to strike for our land. 
And we poor in all but our lives and our bladt s. 

Sent Sarsfield and Dillon. O'Brien. O'Neill. 
And the passionate stream of the Irish brigades, 
The sire of MacMahon went there with his steel. 
With the years as thty go may its glory grow. 

Fair France of the generous hand. 
As for freedom it stood with its gold and its blood, 
Still free and superb may it stand. 

From the loins of the grand old Celtic race. 

Our fathers and theirs came stalwart and twin. 
Wherever we've met on the round world's face. 

Our souls knew their souls for clansman and kin. 
And by us, who on many a blood-red field 

Poured out of our best by the best of Franre 
The compact of kinship again shall be sealed 
Whenever for freedom lier colors advance. 
Health, power and grace to the Celtic race. 

The Gaul and Gael on sea and sliore! 
May the green banner ride the wicj' heavens bcsidt 
The starry flag and the tricolor. 



Hon. James A. O'Gok.man : 1 now propose a loast, 
to the memory of Washington and Rochambeau, ^vhich 
will be responded to by our eloquent friend. Justice James 
Fitzgerald. (Applause.) 

Speech of Hox. James Fitzgerald. 

Mr. President and Gentlemen : 

Tt is indeed difficult to speak 
with such eloquence ringing 
through this hall as we have 
just listened to from the lips 
i)f the eminent divine who 
came from the West to be with 
us at this memorable celebra- 
tion. I am satisfied that each 
one who has participated at 
this board to-night will feel 
the better for it during the 
remainder of his life. 

If one thing is impressed 
upon us by what we have 
see, it is that others than 
Anglo-Saxons have helped to create the American 
nation and have contriljutcd to those grand acliieve- 
ments assoeiatedi with our history fnom tlie time 
that the Republic was rocked in its cradle until this. 
our day, when it stands forth a giant among the na- 
tions. (Applause.) The flower of Europe — Saxon and 
Celt, Latin, Scandinavian and Teuton — have combined 
to make up the great race upon this continent, which traces 
its roots back to manv olden civilizations; and when we 







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speak of llie Mother C'i)untrv. the thought that is in mir 
mind embraces the territory that extends from the Baltic 
to tlie Jlediterranean. and from the -Atlantic Ocean to the 
Caspian Sea. If hereafter we hear misguided persons 
speak of America's wonderful progress in material 
matters and intellectual "fowth as evidences of "Anglo- 
Saxon"' progress, let us, in a spirit of Christian charity 
pray for them, that their poor deluded souls may be en- 
lightened — that is. always supposing that they are not 
beyond prayiiig for (laughter) ; because, if they are of the 
hopeless class, if they belong to those whom the doctors 
designate as "incuraldes." then all we can do. in accord- 
ance with my limited knowledge of theology — and there are 
eminent theologians here to correct me if I am wrong — all 
that we can do is to commend them to the forgiveness of 
Divine Providence upon the grotmd of their invincible- 
ignorance. (Laughter. ) 

What can I say to you of Washington? The name 
speaks with a majesty of eloquence of which words are in- 
capable. The grandest character in history ; the soldier 
who loved peace : the civilian who understood the art of 
war. Brave, patient, wise, powerful, he combined in him- 
self all the qualities that go to make the perfect man. 
What can be said of him that has not been s])oken Inindreds 
of times in words of undying eloquence. The Father rf 
his Country; the founder of a nation: the friend of man- 
k'nd — his name and life are im|)erishably linked with that 
grand epoch of hunuin history when the people were first 
hooked to and the doctrine first proclaimed that they alone 
and not self-anointed kings, constituted the true sources 
and (U'igin of powei'. (Applause.) 

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A\'a.'<hingtoii had an appreciation of tlie word "liberty" 
that had no indefinite meaning; he believed that it had 
its dnties as well as its privileges; that law was its hand- 
maid, and that the i^erjietuity of free institutions could 
alone be maintained by u]ili()hling the supremacy of the 
civil authority. A mere military chieftain might have been 
dazzled by the proffered crown, but he swept it aside, and 
by that act secured an immortality as enduring as the 
stars that light illimitable space. (Applause.) 

What is to be said of Rochambeau ? His name for th ' 
past few weeks has been ringing throughout this land ; ha^- 
been spoken of at every gathering, and has been toasted at 
every banquet. We have had recalled to us, by the mission 
of our friends who are with us to-night, the glorious 
achievements connected with that period in our early his- 
tory so forcildy spoken of by the first speaker of tlie evening. 
It is not for me to repeat to you the oft-told story of what 
was accomplished by our French allies. We remember 
with gratitude how nobly and devotedly Rochambeau — a 
soldier who had served for thirl y years, following the flag 
of his country — came liere in command of an Army as the 
crowning evidence given by the King and people of France 
of their friendship for us in our struggle for independence. 
And we realize and remember how he placed himself as an 
auxiliary at the side of Washington, wliom he recognized 
as the Commander-in-C'hief. 

The distinguished Archbishop has told you of what was 
accomplished by French soldiers and sailors u]ion the sea 
and upon the land, in conjunction witli the armies of tlie 
American Colonies, which culminated in the fall ef Corn- 



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wallis and the surrender of the Hower of the British army 
upon this continent. (Applause.) 

When we speak of Washington and of Rochambeau, 
another name springs to the lip — the friend of both, the 
pupil of both — the luime of the great champion of lib- 
erty and freedom — the magic name of Lafayette. 
He had long shared the sufferings of the C'Olonial 
army; he had fought at ^lonmouth ; he had fallen 
wounded at Brandy wine; he had served through 
the terrible winter of suffering at Valley Forge; and 
we can imagine how his heart was elated with joy when 
he witnessed the sword of the English commander sur- 
rendered to his great chief and friend. While La- 
fayette and Eochambeau held commissions under the 
Continental Congress, they had also rank in the army of 
France, and it is well to remember that Washington, while 
the Commander-in-Chief of our forces, also held the com- 
mission of a General in the French army, and of Vice Ad- 
miral in the French navy (applause), both of which were 
personally borne and presented to him direct from the 
King, through the person of Lafayette. 

Washington had another signal honor which ought cer- 
tainly to be referred to here to-night. He was an honorary 
member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. (Applause.) 
He belonged to this association of New York L-ishmen 
who love Ireland with the same intensity of devotion as 
they worship the Ignited States of America. (Ap- 
plause.) These gentlemen who have the honor of being 
your hosts to-night, are of the blood of Lally, Dillon and 



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Sarsiield. Like them their blood is as Irish as the verdure 
that clothes the slopes of Erin's fair mountains. At the 
same time they are as intensely American in principle and 
in practice, in soul and in sentiment as the descendants of 
any Plymouth Puritan or Southern Cavalier. (Applause.) 
This glorious Union represents for us our country and our 
home. We live under the protection of its laws and it 
never can appeal to our love or loyalty in vain for its de- 
fense. This imperial iiag of the United States has l)een 
followed on the march and fought for on the field by Irish- 
men who fell in thousands, aye, in tens of thousands, to 
preserve untarnished its unsullied folds. (Applause.) 
The presence of gentlemen in this hall to-night in military 
uniform reminds me of the fact that the gallant regiment 
that formed your escort this evening, was the parent of 
legions and brigades of Irish soldiers who fought on every 
battlefield of this Union, inspired by the recollections of the 
old brigade at Landen and at Fontenoy. It must be grat- 
ifying to those gentlemen representing France and the tri- 
color of to-day to remember how grateful America is to 
France and the fleur-de-lis of one hundred and twenty 
years ago. It must be gratifying to the kin of those illus- 
trious men to feel and see, during their short stay in this 
great land the volume of sentiment and love created for 
themselves and their glorious country by reason of the 
efforts and: sacrifices of their progenitors in these far- 
off days; and let us hope that this mission of these soldiers 
and civil officers of France will tend to bind more closely 
the bonds of friendship and amity that have always existed 
between these two most |)owerful nations. Let us also 
breathe the earnest wish that this social o-atherino-, at the 



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friendly board of the Sons of St. Patrick, may create sym- 
l^athy in the hearts of both of those nations on behalf of the 
suffering children of Ireland in the struggle that they are 
making, and that they will continue to make until their 
wrongs are redressed and their rights are recognized. 
(Applause.) 




THE com-te: de rochambeau. 



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Hon. James A. O'Gorman : We are very proud of the 
membership of our ancient and venerable Society, and I 
know of no member who confers upon it greater distinc- 
tion than the one wlro will speak to the next toast — 
"France and Ireland" — which will be responded to by the 
most gifted orator in America, the Hon. W. Bourke 
Cockran. (Great applause.) 



Hon. W. Bourke Cockran. 



Mr. President, Members of 
the French Delegation : In 
the course of an address to 
some college students I once 
undertook to define "elo- 
quence," and I said in one 
word, "that eloquence was sin- 
cerity." ^Vlloever speaks with 
absolute honesty of purpose to 
express an idea which he con- 
ceives it to the interest of his 
hearers to hear, is bound to be- 
come impressive and eloquent. 
I say this because the Am- 
bassador. M. Jules Cambon, in his response this evening 
expressed regret that he could not become eloquent in 
Irish. (Laughter.) I want to tell him now that in any 
language that he chooses to express his thought he cannot 
fail to be eloquent, because sincerity is the name of elo- 
quence. ( Appl ause. ) 




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I shall confide to you. fellow members of the Friendly 
Sons of St. Patrick, that if I were to consult the voice of 
prudence to-niglit, instead of mingling in these festivities, 
I would be trying to restore a broken digestion; but I be- 
lieve that I would leave my dying bed for the purpose of 
participating in this welcome to these envoys from France. 
(Applause.) It has been my fortune to share in many 
celebrations, but never have I brought to a festivity of this 
character so deep a feeling of sympathy, of joy and of grat- 
itude as that with which, on your behalf, I welcome to this 
board, to this country, to the hearts of all our countrymen, 
the delegates who bring here a cordial message from the 
land of France. (Applause.) 

This visit has evoked many thoughts which have found 
eloquent expression. I have listened to all that was spoken 
here to-night; I have followed the speeches that were de- 
livered in other parts of the country, and I was profoundly 
impressed by the cordiality, the candor with which the debt 
of this country to France has been acknowledged every- 
where. Nowhere was it voiced more feelingly or more fit- 
tingly than by the distinguished Archbishop Avho revives in 
the name of his See and in the character of his eloquence 
the great Apostle of the Gentiles. (Applause.) Arch- 
bishop Ireland has told you to-night — and in saying it he 
expressed the sentiment of all our countrymen — that, with- 
out the aid of France it would have been impossible to 
have pressed our Revolution to a successful issue. Every- 
where it is acknowledged that from the very beginning, 
while America was able to contribute heroes to struggle 
for her rights, it was the money and the aid of France that 
made the heroism of these warriors effective for liberation 



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and for freedom. (Applause.) Even after her first great 
success was achieved, the condition of the Colonies was 
desperate, and would have been hopeless but for the direct 
intervention of France. And yet, it is not the mere contri- 
bution of soldiers; not the mere alliance between these two 
countries that to me is the significant feature of this event. 
It was the fact that then, for the first time in the history 
of mankind, a country came to the rescue of another and 
waged war without any hope of personal advantage; and 
still, beyond and more extraordinary than that, loyally 
accepted and obeyed the purpose they had declared in be- 
ginning the war, when the fruits of victory were ready to 
be distributed. (Applause.) 

We have heard much of what France has done and yet, 
my friends, I believe that this intervention of France was 
more remarkable for what she failed to do than even what 
she did. She brought to us arms; she brought to us the 
assistance without which success would have been impos- 
sible; but when victory crowned the alliance; when the 
foreign foe, after surrendering his sword, prepared to 
evacuate our soil, no demand for compensation was made 
by France in the form of a concession of territory, or any 
favor, or naval station, or on any other pretence. (Ap- 
plause.) These heroes were as generous in peace as they 
were invincible in war. (Applause.) This expedition 
brought the French monarchy to the verge of ruin, yet no 
attempt was made to recoup itself at the expense of this 
country when the expedition had proved successful. Tlie 
French soldiers stayed with us while their aid was valu- 
able; they left us when their presence might cast a stain 
upon American independence or a reflection upon Amer- 

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ican honor. (Apj)lause.) They gave us liberty — and 
they left us to enjoy it. (Applause.) The achievement 
stands alone in the whole history of nations ; it remains un- 
rivalled, unsullied, unapproached — it is the supreme con- 
tribution to civilization which has been made in the whole 
history of the human race. (Apphiuse.) I say it is un- 
rivalled, not because I believe it will remain without imita- 
tion. What man has done will always be repeated. The 
merit of a good deed is not only the service wliicli it ren- 
ders, but still more, the noble deeds which it inspires ; and 
the liistory of France's aid to us will remain for all time, 
<-liiding and re]n'oaching a baser conduct; lU'ging imita- 
tion, until in the fulness of time, witli God's blessing, it 
will constitute the standard of conduct between Christian 
nations. (Applause.) 

It has been said, my friends, tliat ior a nation to draw 
the sword merely in defence of abstract justice is Quix- 
otic, indefensible and extravagant. Yet. what war in the 
whole history of nations has ever achieved results similar 
to the intei'vention of France on l)elialf of these Colonies? 
I see around me here to-night the uniform which recalls 
hattlefields and glorious victories in every quarter of the 
globe (applause), and yet when we contrast the results of 
French victory on this soil with all the victories ever 
achieved in any quarter of the universe, we find standing 
out clearly, unmistakably the conclusive proof that what 
man does through love of his fellow man is permanent 
and fruitful : what he does from lust of conquest is eva- 
nescent and unstable, fruitful of nothing ])ut lasting in- 
jnry. ( Aii])laus('.) 



Here a mere handful of French soldiers joined with 
another handful of American warriors, have established a 
country and a republic which to the end of time will 
remain a monument to their valor, their moderation and 
their prudence. It is the home now of a race whose success 
will stand before the world as an inspiration and an 
incentive to every struggle which may be made for liberty 
wherever men are oppressed and wherever they desire an 
opportunity to approach the soil in freedom, that the 
productive power of their hands may be multiplied, the 
horizon of their hopes widened, the span of their days 
lengthened and their possessions iiiultiplied and increased. 
(Applause.) 

Here this Eepublic, these teeming fields, these fertile 
valleys, these great cities, are the fruit of French victory, 
remaining forever a monument of French valor, of French 
humanity and of French love of justice. (Applause.) 
Here indeed is a new France! Not a new France, as it 
may have been conceived in other ages — a dependency of 
some foreign country; its people taxed to support some 
foreign court; its people impressed to swell some foreign 
armv — but the New France, as Louis XVI. helped to 
make it; as Lafayette and Eochambeau assisted Wash- 
ington in making it: the home of the richest, the freest, 
the most prosperous and the most intelligent people on 
the surface of the globe; where peace and property are 
absolutely secure, and yet where no armed soldier is seen 
on the highways, and no fortress casts a grim shadow 
across the landscape. (Applause.) 

The contribution of France to America was decisive in 
the eio-hteenth conturv, but our debt to hor extends far 



beyond the liovohitionarv pei'iod. Her soldiers overthrew 
the obstacle to the establishment of free government, but 
they conld not furnish the conditions and the forces which 
made this Eepuljlic permanent. To understand why this 
Republic exists to-day while nearly every other republican 
experiment has perished in confusion and disorder : why 
this country where government has no outward pomp, and 
yet maintains an authority witliout cpicstion or resistance; 
where justice is administered without any imposing cere- 
monies, and yet where the law is obeyed implicitly; to 
understand the genius of this Eepublic, we must examine 
the conditions upon which it was built. 

T'pon wliat does tliis faljric of our government rest? 
Xot upon written constitutions or statutes, for other 
countries wiiich liave had elaborate written laws have found 
the parchments on which tliey were written but poor 
security and an unsafe foundation for liberty and for 
order. This Eepublic is secure and stable becatise it is 
built upon the moral law. To seek its origin we must go 
back before the events of 17TG. We cannot find it in the 
Constitution which was adopted at Philadelphia; we can- 
not find it in tlu' Declaration of Independence; we cannot 
find it in the Bill of Eights or in any policy or in any 
monument of freedom ever raised bv human hands. We 
must find the seed of republican isin on the shores of Lake 
Galilee, when the Saviour of mankind proclaimed the 
eternal truth — that in the eyes of God all men are born 
equal! (Applause.) 

The acceptance of a spiritual belief in the equality of 
men necessarily led to the establishment of political insti- 
tutions based upon equality before the law. Every force 

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that contributed to establi?!;li and spread Christianity 
throughout the worhl aided to establish the foundations 
■of this Republic; for, as tlie distinguished Archbishop has 
;said, democracy is but the a])plication to civil government 
'of the truths which underlie the Christian revelation. 

I have been given to-night the toast of "Ireland and 
France." That is a toast that suggests what I have just 
said. For the forces that spread Christianity throughout 
the world; that make its triumph inevitable, are Irish 
learning and Irish piety, coupled with French valor and 
F'rench genius. (Applause.) The tie between Ireland 
and France extends far beyond the Revolutionary War; 
far beyond the discovery of this Continent; beyond the 
period wIumi the Crusaders were still struggling to rescue 
the Sacred Sepulchre from the possession of the Saracen. 
It dates back to the time when Patrick received the tonsure 
upon Ph'encli soil and set forth u]jon that mission destined 
to make Ireland that Island of Saints, the reservoir of 
learning, the foundation of European learning, the cradle 
of modern civilization. (Applause.) 

Whence came the spread of learning throughout Europe 
after the fall of the Roman Empire? Not from the 
south, for the survivors of the ancient civilizations sought 
safety in the isolation of the Italian cities. Not from 
Spain, which had passed under the dominion of the 
Saracen — but from Ireland, whose people — brave as ever 
was pillaging Dane, or Scot, or Saxon — embarked upon 
enterprises of civilization, of conversion of humanity. 
Wherever a savage or barbarous tribe took possession of a 
Roman city or Gaulish province, there Irish missionaries 
followed quick upon the heels of the invaders, preaching 

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to the savage warriors, who respected no quality but 
physical prowess, the gospel which taught that the con- 
quest of self was the onlv conquest of wliieh man should 
l)e proud, the conquest which would lead him along the 
patliway of his own improvement. France was the soil 
upon which the seed of civilization was east. France was 
the place where it took root and blossomed and flowered 
and Ijore a fruit which, wafted across Europe, became the 
seed of all the European civilization of which we hear 
so much to-day. (Applause.) 

Love of justice was always the aljsorbing passion of the 
French people. It explains all the mutations and revolu- 
tions in her history. France has been indifferent to for- 
mulas ; to form of procedure, l)ut she has always been 
tenacious of substantial justice. The growth of different 
institutions upon her soil can always be explained by the 
. part they played, or were supposed to play, in the protec- 
tion of justice. The kingship of Louis XVL proved that 
it was a powerful weapon f(U" the forcing of inexorable 
justice between high and low, between weak and strong, 
between the great and mighty ; but the kingship fell when 
it ceased to be loyal to justice and became an instrument 
of oppression and wrong. But never through the whole 
history of France, however violent her revolution, how- 
ever her patriots or her extremest political devotees may 
have been ready to steep their hands in blood, never have 
they been found capable of rifling the pockets of their 
com])anions, of plundering a treasury. (Applause.) 
Justice may have been mistaken — rude, inadmissible 
notions of justice, as we understood them — but justice 
was alwavs ensliriued in tlicir hearts an:l reo'ulated all 



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their movements. (Applause.) And under the influence 
of this justice every art and every science are awakened in 
France. Other nations have studied her politics, have 
studied lier laws, and have become in turn agents for the 
dissemination of civilization throughout the world. But 
in every step of her progress, every day of her history 
in which France was working towards that triumpli of 
justice which underlies its Eepublic and contributed to 
its formation, she was contributing to the formatio]i of 
this Eepublic. She was contributing to the formation of 
this Eepublic when she welcomed Irish missionaries to her 
soil and made of their teachings the foundation of a iV'W 
and a brighter civilization. She was contributing to this 
Eepublic when I'liarles Martel at Tours rolled back the 
tide of Saracen invasion and saved Europe from the domin- 
ion of the cresent, and saved Christian civilization through- 
out the world. She was laboring towards the formation 
of this Eepublic when the first crusade was created within 
her borders and blessed by a Pope of French origin : and 
when, for the first time, the nations of the world were 
linked together in a lofty, ideal object. She was still con- 
tributing to this Eepublic when Louis founded the Sor- 
bonne, and France became the foundation of intellectual 
food for all Europe. She was but putting the finishing 
toucli to her contributions when the public opinion of 
France forced the Court to intervene for the emancipa- 
tion of this country; and the same public opinion found 
expression when Lafayette and Eochambeau and all the 
other volunteers from noble families, preferred to risk 
death here, side by side with men alien to them in relig- 
ion, race and in langua2:e. but akin t:) tliem in tliat love 



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of liberty for M-hich they were making the gigantic strug- 
gle. (Applause.) 

^Vhen we read the ^tory__of France throughout the world 
can we listen with patience to those who tell us that she 
is a country sinking in importance throughout Europe; 
that other nations are passing her in population and in 
wealth? ,Sir, if every French town were razed to tfie 
ground; if every French fortification were dismantled; if 
every Fi'eneh ship of war were sunk in the sea: if France 
were dismembered and every department separated into a 
different entity; if it were undertaken to blot France 
from the inap of the world; as w.-Il might you blot the 
stars from the firmament, as eliminate France from the 
condition of that civilization which she did most to found 
and most to preserve and most to make triumphant on 
this soil for all time. (Applause.) 

The devotion of France to justice was the bond which 
made the Irish and the French races always allied in 
every crisis of their existence. That friendship which 
dated from the mission of Patrick has never wavered, 
and never been clouded. Wherever liberty has been 
assailed the spirits of Frenchmen and of Irishmen have 
rushed together, and soon their swords have followed their 
thoughts, and side by side they battled for the progress 
of the human race. Even to-day we find— for it h not 
my intention at this time of the evening to re^•ive the 
glorious memories of that Irish brigade; of the battle- 
fields on which the blood of Frenchmen and Irishmen 
were mingled together in gigantic struggles for the ad- 
vancement of the humaii race, and to curl) "the power of the 
nation th.at never kept faith except when she feared to 



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break it. (Applause.) But even iiow^ within tlie^e very 
days that are passing over our heads, we have seen tliat, 
when an attempt has been made to invade the Eepnl)lics 
of South Africa, the great hearts of both nations leapt 
together to protest against that outrage on civilization. 
(Applause.) Xcver, "while that great struggle in defence 
of freedom — which has no parallel in history and no 
precedent in glory — is remembered by the hum:i;i race, 
will the name of Villebois de Mareuil l)e forgotten. And 
never liad Irishmen greater reason to be prouder of their 
race than during these last few years. When their 
representatives were tempted Ijy the offer of all they had 
struggled for during seven centuries if only they would 
countenance this outrage upon civilization, they spurned 
the offer and declareil that, ardently as they desired jus- 
tice, determined as they were to struggle for it, they 
would not accept it at the cost of doing injustice to the 
weakest nation on the earth, wherever its territory and 
however it differed in language or in race. (Applause.) 

That contril)ntion which the Irish ])eople have made to 
the discussion of the English policy in South Africa, has 
voiced the opposition in the English parliament. It has 
postponed Irish emancipation, but it has immeasurably 
glorified the Irish character. (Great applause.) 

And, my friends, can it be that justice which is so 
ti-iuinphant in this country; which France has made tri- 
um))liant here, shall forever be denied to the members of 
our own race? ISTo; I don't believe it! To doubt justice 
is to doubt the wisdom, the power and the fidelity of 
Heaven itself. (Applause.) How justice shall be done 
T know not; but however justice may be delayed, certain 

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it is that justice will ultimately be done, and whoever 
obstructs it will pay an awful penalty for tlie delay. 
When we recollect that here upon this soil the French- 
man and the Irishman, as the Archbishop has told you, 
stood together at Yorktown when justice achieved her 
supreme triumph; just as the Celt and the Gaul stood 
together when laying the foundations of Christian civili- 
zation amid tlie crumbling fabric of the Eoman Empire; 
wlio can doul)t that justice will ultimately prevail through- 
out the world ? 

From the,-e festivities; fr(.m this welcome to these am- 
bassadors of freedom and of justice, we can bring away no 
nobler thought, no more inspiring consolation than the 
belief that the dominion of God's justice throughout the 
world can no more be prevented than the resurrection of 
God's Son could be prevented by the stone at the mouth 
of His tomb. (Applause.) 

Here, my friends, I give you to-night with these ban- 
ners in my hand (waving the banners of France, Ireland 
and America) the toast with which I hope to conclude — 
France, Ireland, the United States — bound together not 
by written treaties, but by sentiment which never can be 
checked; which is expressed in all their thoughts and all 
their acts. May the justice Kvhich has l)ound them be 
extended over the world till lil)erty become the possession 
of all the children of men. ( A])]ilause.) 



55 



Hon. James A. (TGoumax: If the distinguished 
orator is indisposed to-niglit, what could he not aeeom- 
])lish when in good health. 

I ask you, gentlemen, hll your glasses and drink to 
"The Army and Navy of France.^' (Applause.) 

You shall now have the pleasure of listening to the senior 
officer of the French army — General Brugere. (Ap- 
plause. ) 

Speech of General Bruoere. 

(Delivered in French.) 



I did not expect to have the 
honor of s])eaking to you this 
rvcning. I had asked to speak 
in my i^.ame General Ghalen- 
dar, whose grandfather came 
to America with the troops of 
iiocliandjeau. where, as cap- 
tain, he led his company to 
tlie assault on the works of 
Yorktown. I had asked him 
lo speak to you in the name of 
the French army, but your 
distinguished president has 
so amiably insisted on my say- 
ing a few words, that I am unable to resist the pleasure of 
being agreeable to him. (Applause.) 

Archbisho]) Ireland, with his forceful and communi- 
cative eloquence, spoke of the three flags which have been 




56 



distributed to us here this evening. You cannot realize the 
pleasure I experience in holding in my hand these three 
flags. The American flag and the French flag, both of the 
same colors, and in consequence bearing the same meaning, 
and which represent the bonds which have united us for so 
long a time and bonds which are destined to last forever. 
(Applause.) Then we have this beautiful Irish flag bi'ar- 
ing this pretty device, "Erin Go Bragh" — "Ireland For- 
ever!" I cannot tell you the emotions which crowd in 
upon me as I stand in this room, so handsomely decorated 
with the colors of the three nations; the emotions that I 
experience in hearing the acclamations addressed to France 
by the sons of a nation whom she loves. 

I have just told General Chalendar that you would be 
glad to listen to the descendant of a man who fought by 
the side of joiw grandfathers. But before he does so, I 
wish to sahite the fine American army— the sister of the 
French army. I also delight in saluting and thanking the 
gallant Sixty-ninth Kegimont (applause), whose martial 
bearing and attinid(» filled me with admiration and who 
did us the great honor of escorting us to this brilliant func- 
tion. 

Again, let me not forget the pleasant duty of saluting 
the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, which has so warmly 
welcomed ns to-night, and whose brilliant and eloquent 
orators have uttered words of the deepest interest to us and 
which appeal to the heart of every Frenchman and every 
American and every Irishman united in the same common 
sentiment of cordiality and kindly fraternity. (Ap- 
plause.) 

57 



Hon. James A. O'Gorman: As you have been told by- 
General Biugere, General Chalendar, whom I now have the 
honor of presenting, is a grandson of a captain who served 
under Kochanibeau at Yorktown. (Ajiplause.) 

)S'PEFG]:[ OF General Chalendar. 
(Delivered in French.) 



After the eloquent words 
to which you have just lis- 
tened, there is but little I can 
add. 

The loyal regiment of Au- 
vergne, in which my grand- 
father served fought side by 
side with sons of Ireland be- 
fore drawing its swords in the 
War of American Indepen- 
<h'nce. We ought not to lose 
sight of the fact while assist- 
ing at the b illiant fetes in 
honor of Kochambeau and his 
companions, that the Irish long before that had shed their 
blood for France. We ought not to forget that they contin- 
ued to generously shed their blood long after the immortal 
event which we celebrate. You will not have to look very 
far to find the names of Irishmen who gave their blood 
for France as recently as thirty-two years ago. (Ap- 
plause.) We cannot forget those of your compatriots 
who, while you have become Americans, became French 




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citizens and who bear memorable names in our army — 
those especially of IMcDonalcl and McMahon. We cannot 
forget amongst oiir comrades General O'Connor, one of 
the most justly esteemed heads of the French army. I 
ask vou to unite with me in drinking to the toast of "The 
Sons of Erin." (Applause.) 

The toast was honored with bumpers and cheers. 




COL. E 



D\^/ARD DU RFY, COM MAN Dl M<3 
S9TH RECSIMENT". 



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Hon. James A. O'GtORMAN:, , This very interesting 
gathering will now be honored with a few words from Ad- 
miral Fonrnier of the French navy. (Applause.) 



Speech of Amdiral Fourxiee. 

{Delivered in Fi-ench.) 

As we drew near to your 
hospitable shores in the Gau- 
lois, and saw on the horizon 
the magnificent squadron 
which had come to meet us, it 
seemed that after a century 
we were now to meet the de- 
scendants of the heroes of 
Yorktown, the heroes of those 
stirring and solemn times. 
It was indeed a pleasure for 
us. And then, on the follow- 
ing day when we had the 
honor of being received by 
President Eoosevelt, and were able to admire that vigorous, 
energetic and intelligent personality, the embodiment of 
courage and loyalty, we felt that it was not in vain that the 
Gaulois and the American squadron were to meet as the 
ambassadors of the Presidents of the two sister Eepublics 
^ — France and the United States. (Applause.) 

When we saw afterward a small body of our marines 
mingle with their comrades of the American navy and 
march before President Eoosevelt, our hearts could not fail 
to beat with emotion at seeing the dashing head of that 




60 



band of brilliant cavaliers who figured so conspicuously 
in the recent war; when he said to us, "Look at those sol- 
diers who pass here before ns — I have f(mo:ht with them." 
(Applause.) 

But our astonishment and surprise were not so soon 
to end in this land of miracles. On reaching your beau- 
tiful city of Xew York, we found ourselves in the middle 
of an enthusiastic crowd, every craft small and large ex- 
tending its fraternal welcome. We realized what a mag- 
nificent reception had been prepared for us by free Amer- 
ica. We were not astonished at such a warm welcome in 
the city which has the honor of being presided over by my 
neighbor, Mayor Low — this city which increases every day, 
and is the astonishment and admiration of the world. 
(Applause.) 

One of the things that has interested us so much here 
has been the magnificent parade of the fine regiment wdiose 
Colonel is with us to-night — the Sixty-ninth Regi- 
ment — (applause) which reminded me and had every 
appearance of a crack French regiment on parade (ap- 
plause), for I couldn't see the difference between an Irish 
regiment and a French regiment ; they have at least one 
point in common — heroism! (Applause.) 

I wish to say at this time that if we are happy to find 
ourselves reunited here to-night as has been so aptly 
remarked l)y General Brugere and our Ambassador — who 
has succeeded so well in strengthening the ties of friend- 
ship between this country and our own — it is because we 
admire the Irish; because we are affectionately attached 
to them, both in heart and mind and hope, and it is cer- 
tain that the welcome so orenerouslv bestowed on us to- 



61 



night will serve still further to fortify in our hearts this 
sentiment of generosity wherever the sons of either nation 
meet. (Applause.) 

One of the most important elements which have contrib- 
uted so largely to the success of America appears to me 
to be the generous protection which she gives to the sons 
of ever}' country, as has been so eloquently referred to in 
the powerful speech of the Archbishop ; who rightly in- 
voked also the glorious reminiscences of chivalrous France. 
If her sword now sleeps in its scabbard, the day it is drawn 
it will be for the interest of humanity and will astonish 
the world by its brilliance on the field of battle. (Ap- 
plause.) 

Gentlemen. I drink to the organizers of this beautiful 
fete which has caused the chords of all hearts — French, 
Irish and Americans to vibrate in unison. In conclusion, I 
drink to my comrades of the American navy, which counts 
in its ranks so manv valiant Irishmen. (Applause.) 




SAHUfSI DE LARAVETTE. 
62 



Hon. James A. O'Gormax: Except the President of 
the United States, no citizen of this country has done more 
in honor of our French visitors than the Mayor of our city, 
Mr. Low. (Applause.) I am sure he is proud of this 
demonstration in honor of our ^ests. 

Speech of Hon. Seth Low. 




Souiewliere 1 have read a 
verse that runs in this fash- 
ion : 

"We shut our hearts up nowa- 
days like some old music- 
box that plays 

Unfashionable airs that raise 
derisive pity, 

When lo ! something strikes 
the string and straight 
the sentimental thing 

At once begins its quivering, 
its sentimental ditty." 



This visit of the French mission has set quivering the 
strings of sentiment in the American hearts and in the 
Irish hearts, and they have neither of them been slow to 
respond to that magic touch. I knew well that, as Mayor 
of the city, nothing that I could do would be too much to 
do honor to the feeling in your hearts and to the feeling in 
in the hearts of all our citizens for the representatives of 
the nation of France. It is not onlv those of us who look 



63 



back to the Eevolutionary days and feel that our fathers 
fought side by side with them, but I believe that, as the 
Mayor of the city, I spoke for that great race that has come 
from every nation which makes up our population, in 
recognition of our indebtedness to France for her ancient 
kindness, for all that she has done for civilization, and 
for her present friondsliip. (A]^p]auso.) 




M. JUUES BCEURVE, C H A l\3 C E 1_ 1_0 R 
OF" THE FRENCH EMBASSY- 



64 



Hon. James A. O'GomiAX : Our distinguished fellow 
citizen who has represented us abroad for so many years 
with great distinction will say just a word. General 
Horace Porter. (Applause.) 



Speech of General Horace Porter. 



Only one word iu closing. 
1 1 is the hour now when grave- 
yards yawn — and audiences 
I'ollow their example. 

When the great French den- 
tist was appointed dentist to 
King Stanislas, he received 
I he appointment on the day 
on which the king lost his last 
toDth. 1 am ajjpointed to 
> I teak at a time when there is 
danger of the room losing its 
last man. 1 will only say how 
pleasing it is to see you, on the 
eve of the departure of our good friends from France. I 
was glad to see these flags joined in this way this evening, 
their folds all in close touch; for these flags of our two 
great sister Eepnblics, or the original flags which they 
represent, waved together in victory, interlaced in liattle, 
have ever been entwined in peace. ]\lay the ruthless hand 
of discord never rend them asunder. (Applause.) 




m 



I can only say in parting, tiial 1 express here the wish 
and the belief that the ties of friendship which were estab 
lished by the services and the sacrifices of Eochambeau, 
Lafayette, and their brothers in arms, will be indestrnct- 
ible; will be everlasting. (Applanse.) 




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French Consul General at New York 

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew 

M. Lagrave 

Representing the Ministry of Commerce 
Comte de Rochambeau 
Right Rev. John Ireland, D.D. 

Archbishop of St. Paul 
Lieut. Col. Meaux Saint- Marc 

Aide de-Camp and Personal Representative 

of M. Emiie Loubet, President of the French 

Republic 
Mr. Herbert H. D. Peirce 

Third Assistant Secretary of State 
M Croiset 

Member of the French Institute 

Dean of the Faculty of Letters of Paris 
Hon Seth Low, Mayor 
\'ice- Admiral Fournier 

Inspector General of the P'rench Navy 
His Excellency M. Cambon 

The French Ambassador 
Mr, Justice O'Qorman, President. 

General Brugere 

General of Division, Vice-President of the 

Supreme Council of War, Chief of Special 

Mission 
General Horace Porter 

Ambassador to France 
General Chalendar 

Commanaer of the 14th Infantry Brigade 
Capitaine de Surgy 

Captain of the Armored Cruiser Gaulois 
Rear Admiral A. W. Barker, U. S. N. 
Comte Sahune de La Fayette 
Hon. W. Bourke Cockran 
M. de Margerie 

Counselor of the French Embassy at 

Washington 
Mr. Justice Fitzgerald 
M. Jean Guillemin 

Sub-Director of the Cabinet of the Foreign 

Alinister 
Mr. Joseph I. C. Clarke 

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The Herald 




The Sun 


The Tribune 




The Times 


The World 




The Journal 


The Press 




City Press Assn. 
Sunday Democrat 


The Irish World 


Table 


Sunday Union 


Wilfrid N O Neil 


A 


Irish American 


Charles A. O'Neil 




Catholic News 


James B Laux 




William H. Kelly 


Thomas P. Kelly 




William A. Sweester 


11 A Rogers 




William H Kelly, Jr. 



Aisle 



Daniel Kennedy 




John Slattery 


John P. Judge 




Richard J. Buckley 


Matthew E. Kennedy 




F. B. Thurber 


Rev. M. A. Cunnion 






Hugh King 




Maxime H. Furland 


Louis F. Doyle 




A. E Tower 


Wm. Zaiss 




P. H. Troy 


P. J. Scully 




Franklin Bartlett 


John J. Quinlan 




William F. Carey 


John J. Ryan 




W. E. Woolley 


Peter J. Loughlin 




Martin J. White 


James Flynn 







Bartholomew ]\Ioynahan 
70 



Edward J McGuire 




Arthur T. Bowers 


George L. Rives 




Edward Gary 


Joseph F. Daly 




Mr. Justice Delahunty 


Wm. J Clarke 




Walter G. Hooke 


Manuel Rionda 




B. B. Rionda 


James Dunne 


Table 


Thomas Crane 


H. M. Hunter 


B 


Edvv. J. 0"Shaughnessy 


Wm S. Rody 




P. A. Moynahan 


Rev. Wm. J. B. Daly 




H. H. Kane 


Rob't E. McDonnell 




Guest 


M. F. Loughman 




Jay O'Rrien 


E J. Loughman 




Stanley Gifford 



Aisle 



E. D Farrell, Jr. 




John McGinnis 


E. D. Farrell 




C. A. Barron 


James G. Blaine 




P. A. O'Farrell 


A. Stern 




John J. Kennedy 


Mr. Justice Hatch 




Edward J. Gavegan 


J. P. Caddagan 




P. F Collier 
Howard Carroll 


Louis A. Risse 




James A. Deering 


Thomas E. Crimmins 




Thomas F. Gilroy 


Wm. Temple Emmett 




Charles W. Dayton 


Mr. Justice Keogh 




Sylvester J O'SuIlivan 


Mr. Justice O'Brien 




Surrogate Fitzgerald 


John A. McCall 




Guest 



Miles M. O'Brien 
Tl 



Mr. Justice Patterson 




Wm. F. Havemeyer 


Mr. Justice Scott 




Jolin C. McGuire 


Mr. Justice Clarke 




Ferdinand E. Cauda 


Maurice J. Power 




William N Penney 


John J. Deery 




Edward S. Innet 


Mr. Justice C('nlan 


Table 


John Stewart 


Murray C. Dannenbaum 


C 


Mr. Justice Steclcler 


Cliarles Dien 


G. Castignier 


Al. Poirier 




Thaddeus Moriarty 


Rev. M. J. Lavelle 




P. Donahue 


George B. Coleman 




C. J. Ryan 


Francis B. Delalianty 




C, D. Simpson 



Aisle 



Nicholas J. Barrett 




Benjamin Harrison 


John H. Spellman 




Martin J. White 


Thomas F. Conway 




C. J. Ryan, Jr. 


Francis Higsins 




Thomas C. Dunham 


Santiago P. Cahill 




George H. Fahrbach 


George E. Coleman 




John McLaughlin 


Edmund J. Curry 




P E. Demarest 


J F. Curry 




Wm. J. Conville 


Boleslaw Lapowski 




John E. Kelley 


Thomas Morrissy 




Brooks H. Wells 


Wm. O'Conor 




Joseph H. Bissell 


H. G. Davis 




Wm. R. Pryor 


Wisner Townsend 




Jose M. Ferrer 


Francis J Quinlan 




Wm. J. Spain 



Constantine J. MacGuire 

73 



David O'Brien 

Daniel F. Kellogg 

James W. O'Brien 

James Reiley 

Theedore ConoUy 

R. J. Kennedy 

Rev, John J. FuUam 

James F- Slevin 

P. I. Sullivan 

Matthew P. Ryan 

John P. O'Brien 

A. Dederer 

Leo Schlessinger 



Aisle 



John J. Harrington 

Thomas J. Shanley 

]. R. Benjamin 

Eugene A, Kennedy 

Theodore A. Driscoll 

Michael Blake 

John P. Dunn 

Thomas M. Blake 

Manual L. Corcuera 

John N. Lautb 

James W. McCormick 

Guest 



Rev. C. McCreedy, D. D. 
James S. Coleman 
B F. Coleman 
Henry Loewenthal 
Thomas Barrett 
Terence F. Curley 
John F. O'Rourke 
George E. Schanck 
Wm T. Fanning 
Marvin Dana 
Wm. J. Woods 
]. F. Schaperkotter 
Michael Shanley 



Patrick Shanley 
Daniel J. Kane 
R. J. Lyons 
Thomas C. Blade 
Thomas Miller 

H T. Moss 

Guest 

Henry Collins Walsh 

John Rooney 

Perry Belmont 

William G. Davies 

Edward N. Tailer 



John G. O'Keeffe 
73 



John J. Rooney 




Rev, J O'Donovan 


Frank S. Gannon 




F. C. Travers 


Walter K. Burrows 




Edwin J. Langdon 


M. de Breda 




V. P. Travers 


M. Wellhoff 




M. J. Drunimond 


James Clarke 


Table 


William McAdoo 


John Byrne 


E 


Mr. Justice Laughlin 


D. F. Maroney 




Joseph Smith 


Michael J. Mulqueen 




Stephen J. Geoghegan 


Farrell F. O'Dowd 




E. B. Seaman 


Daniel F. Cohalan 




Capt. Glynn 


James J Frawley 




Lt. Nagle 



Aisle 



John M. Digney 




Lt. Maguire 


Rev George Marshall 




Walter J. Drummond 


Michael Brennan 




F. S. Gannon. Jr. 


Frank Curry 




Philip Rhinelandcr 


A. F. Travers 

Patrick Kiernan 

Joseph Mulqueen 




C. R. Spence 
Joseph E. Owens 
Raymond F. Almiral 
Richard L. Walsh 


James M. Bingham 




Andrew J. Corcoran 


Granville F. Dailey 




Patrick Farrelly 


John Aspell 




Hugh Kelly 


James McMahon 
John Furey 




Joseph A. Marsh 
Stephen Farrelly 



John Crane 
74 



John Guilfoyle 

G. Blum 

Thomas C. O Sullivan 

Emmett J. Murphy 

James Curran 

J. Smith 

S. B. Barry 

Joseph J. Gleason 

Thomas A Plunkitt 

Major Daniel C. Devlin 



Aisle 



Thomas J. Brady 
Daniel F. McMahon 
Charles F. Murphy 
Henry McAleenan 
Wm Carr 
Robert J. Hoguet 
Daniel Jordan 
James J. Phelan 
Charles Blandv 



Clarence J Ramsey 




Edmund L. Mooney 


Major Michael Lynch 




Andrew J. Shipman 


Adj. John R. Foley 




J. C Anderson 


Major F. L. Oswald 




Peter McDonnell 


Francis O'Neill 




George J. Gillespie 


Alexis X Phelan 




William J. Bowe 


Isaac Bell Brennan 




Paul T. Kenny 


Gustave Dorval 






John B- Finn 




Edward V. Holland 


Watson Vredenburgh 




Joseph T. Ryan 



Andrew A. McCormick 
75 



DINNER COMMITTEE. 



JOHN G. O'KEEFE, Chairman 
MILES M. O'BRIEN JAMES FITZGERALD 

ANDREW A. Mccormick william n penney 

J. I. C. CLARKE FRANCIS J. QUINLAN 

1'HOMAS C. O'SULLIVAN F. C. TRAVERS 

EDWARD J. McGUIRE E. D. FARRELL 

JAMES J. PHELAN FRANK S. GANNON 

EDMOND J. CTTRRY. 





M R J O H IM Gi. 0'KEEF"E:. MR. MILES M. O'BRIEN 




DR. COIMS-TAIMTI IM E J. MACC3UIRI 



76 



OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 



JAMES A. O'GORMAN, Tresident. 



EDWARD PATTERSON, CONSTANTINE J. MACGUIRE, 

First Vice-President. Second Vice-President. 



JOHN D. CRIMMINS, Treasurer. 



BARTHOLOMEW MOYNAIIAN, 

Recording Secretary. 



JOHN J. ROONEY 

Corresponding Secretary. 



JOHN CRANE, Almoner. 





MR.JOHND. CRIMMINS. MR.JOHIMJ.ROONJ EY. 



LofC. 



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APPROACH TO THE OHATEAU DE ROCHAMBEAU 

The famous avenue of linden trees two miles long, skirting the river Loir. 



78 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

General Brugere's Letter 

Introduction 1 

Guests of the Society 13 

Menu 1^ 

Toasts 1^ 

THE SPEECHES. 

President James A. O'Gorman 19 

Ambassador Jules Cambon 82 

Archbishop Ireland "33 

Poem, "The Kinship of the Celt," by Joseph I. C. 

Clarke 36 

Justice James Fitzgerald 38 

Hon. Bourke W. Cockran 44 

General Brugere •"»*> 

General Chalendar 58 

Vice Admiral Fournier (•'* 

Hon. Seth Low 63 

General Horace Porter 65 

Diagrams of the Tables 6? 

Dinner Committee '''6 

Officers of the Society '^'^ 

Finis. 
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